Why My Computer Doesn’t See External Hard Drive Windows 7
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You are facing a system problem in which your computer doesn’t see external drive. And you have installed windows 7 on your system. Perform the steps given below to solve this error.
1. Plug in the external USB hard drive.
2. Right on My Computer.
3. Left click on Manage option.
4. Left click on Device Manager.
5. Expand the USB list by right clicking on it.
6. Find the USB device for your USB Hard Drive (in my case it was the one that had no description)
7. Right click on Uninstall.
8. Unplug the external USB hard drive.
9. Now Connect the external USB hard drive and let it find and install the driver
10. Now access data from it.Sometime the computer doesn’t see the external usb hard drive because of bad usb port. Remove the unnecessary device from working usb port and plug-in the hard drive in it. If the problems remains same then perform the following steps.
1. Go to Start
2. Select My Computer
3. Find Organize.
4. Select Folder and search options.
5. Now click on View tab.
6. Uncheck “Hide empty drives in the Computer folder”.
7. At the end click on OK.Reset the upper filter and lower filter value for external usb drive. Perform the steps given below to fix the issue.
1. Go to start, press windows key + r and type regedit and press enter.
2. Find the following registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}
3. Right click on the {36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000} and right click on it.
4. Choose Export option and select desktop, and click on save.
5. Now select the value {36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000} and check upperfilter and lowerfilter value. If these values are present then delete it
6. Restart the computer and your problem will be resolved.If your system is not able to assign drive letter then also this situation arises. So simply check the drive letter if the system is not able to assign the drive letter. Then assign the drive letter and your problem will be solved.
Follow the steps.
1. Connect the flash drive to your computer system.
2. Right click on My Computer or This PC (windows 10), and hit on the Manage from the drop down list.
3. Now click on Disk Management.
4. Right click on your flash drive and hit on Change Drive Letter and Path.
5. Hit on the drive and its colour change to blue, simply click on Change.
6. Select the Flash drive letter from the drop-down list and click on OK.
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